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Andy Kaufman: People
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Andy Kaufman loved shocking audiences. But many people think he went too far when he got into a fight with professional wrestler Jerry Lawler live on the David Letterman show. For years no one knew if it was real or staged.
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Laurie Anderson worked alongside Andy Kaufman for a time in the 1970s, acting as a sort of straight woman in a number of his Manhattan and Coney Island performances. One of these performances included getting on a ride that people stand in and get spun around. After everyone was strapped in Kaufman would start saying how he did not want to be on the ride in a panicked tone and eventually cry. Anderson later described these performances in her 1995 album The Ugly One with the Jewels.
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Try as hard as they might, Pro Wrestling would kill for a feud as well done as Kaufman vs. Lawler was done. To this day, many people still believe that the two hated each other with a tremendous passion. Take a look at the Kaufman film "I'm From Hollywood" and you'll see some of the most entertaining wrestling theatrics of all time. Kaufman at one point offers anyone $10,000 that can put Lawler in the hospital for good. Definitely a must see for any fan of wrestling, period. The feud culminated in a classic confrontation on the David Letterman show that remains one of televisions greatest moments.
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Kaufman was a friend of Alan Spencer, best known as a creator of the cult hit TV series Sledge Hammer! Kaufman once invited Spencer over to his home and subjected him to a marathon of forty-eight hours of The People's Court, a series that Kaufman religiously recorded.
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The film opens with Kaufman entertaining the wall of his bedroom as a child. When his father forbade such make-believe and insists he only entertain 'real' people, Kaufman enlists the aid of his baby sister and continues in his fantasy world. Classic Evokateur problem-solving. Some might suggest Kaufman was Ansir Eccentrik. Not likely. Eccentrik's don't care what others think.
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Andy meant a lot of things to a lot of people, and his impact and influence on the worlds of both stage and screen cannot be questioned. Yet, some within another world, one that is as unconventional and unique as Andy himself -- the world of sports entertainment -- tend to forget the importance of his year-long feud with Lawler and the precedent that it set Unquestionably, his is the one 'celebrity angle' in wrestling that all others will forever be measured against.
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